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Originally Posted by fearnaught
Hi, the curly tail is a variant of the charging rhino which came about much as Mike Jackson explains in1942 at Khatatba. The sapper painted a more spirited animal at the charge. The Hq staff liked the change and so was universally adopted, according to Cole pp33. The curly tail is rarer and was probably made in Italy where whoever was making it thought it was a boar or had a sense of humour. Mike
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Thank you Mike! Unluckily my own edition of Cole's Heraldry in War is a very desirable, but alltogether incomplete 1946 first edition: the device sported as the 1st Armoured Divison badge is the charging rhino with the pig corkscrew tail. Info on the division are just up to the Tunisia campaign, therefore I thought that this version of the badge could be earlier than Italy...